Current Trending 'X'/twitter eXodus | Where to? Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon or alternative?

magicbastarder

i know people who tried threads and found it… lacking. it seemed to be more where angry people leaving facebook went, rather than a twitter substitute?

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122998304#Comment_122998304

For now but just wait. The crankosphere will absolutely start to hit it hard if more and more people move. Fake accounts, AI generated toxicity, bots, cancerous spam, certain state actors hitting it - calling it all now.

Just hoping it can fend all that BS off and remain relatively "normal".

magicbastarder

It's possible that the improved ability to block will help fend off some of that. But as you say, it remains to be seen.

I had a taste of what twitter had become like in October of last year; I'd already pretty much stopped using it but I had cause to ask aer Lingus a question on Twitter. Over the next 24 hours, I got ten or twelve tweets from fake accounts pretending to be aer Lingus asking me to follow them so they could DM me. I was reporting them (as was my brother) but a week later, some were still active.

corkie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122998318#Comment_122998318

I put the down to because of the Holiday Season? It will still hit 26,000,000 in the next few days?

25,907,690

At present!

Edit:-

https://bsky.social/about/blog/12-30-2024-year-in-review

https://bsky.app/profile/jennawiseford.bsky.social/post/3lekcgui5zk27

Jim Herring

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123000773#Comment_123000773

We’ll see next week if the sign up rate per second recovers.

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123000773#Comment_123000773

Nice.

I wonder what it takes to be added to one of those block lists? (even asking that question is probably enough) I must have a look through them later, if I can remember my log in details

magicbastarder

In a way, bluesky is somewhere between twitter and Facebook, in that twitter is 'default open' and Facebook is 'default closed'. Bluesky has implemented greater controls so you can drift more from a twitter model to a Facebook one.

On Facebook, there'd be zero expectation that someone you don't want any interaction with could interact with you, and I guess bluesky is just providing some of that sort of experience.

magicbastarder

this is not just weird, it's verging on dystopian. (FWIW - meta have started to enable its AI generated accounts on instagram, and they're just a bit off)

https://bsky.app/profile/o.simardcasanova.net/post/3letbbsvqgc2a

edit: it's been pointed out that the profile being discussed was seemingly created in 2023, with speculation that the date has been faked. it certainly has been posting AI generated imagery.

corkie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123013146#Comment_123013146

Meta Criticism is trending on bluesky!

https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/14570949

Ben D Bus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123013146#Comment_123013146

Looks like that IG account has been removed/hidden now. The worst thing I noticed about it was that it couldn't be blocked. So you could be forced to endure bots on your feed. What an immensely stupid thing for Meta to do.

My only fear now is that they'll be more subtle with the next iteration.

magicbastarder

what's doing well for meta these days? facebook seems dead on its feet; they can't be making money from whatsapp; i'm not on threads? is instagram holding its own?

Jim Herring

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123014687#Comment_123014687

Dead on it’s feet alright:

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/

corkie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123000840#Comment_123000840

As I thought the Holiday Season affected the amount of people joining. Nearly halfway to 27 since New Years night! See:- https://skyzoo.blue/stats/whale numbers difference due to deletions etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/jyc.dev/post/3lf3j6izwps2a

Trend showing the number of accounts on bluesky over time.
On top: we can see cumulative numbers (easier to see the volume).
At the bottom we can see daily numbers (easier to see wave size).

corkie

Interesting video clips coming into Public Domain that the Internet Archive are sharing, pity we don't have embeds enabled on here yet. Skeleton Dance and THE KARNIVAL KID (1929)!

See them here:- https://bsky.app/profile/archive.org or embed on my github page here:-

https://corkiejp.github.io/corkiejp.html#highlight

magicbastarder

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-censorship-moderation/index.html

" “Fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created,” Zuckerberg said in a video announcing the new policy Tuesday. “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far.”

Zuckerberg, however, acknowledged a “tradeoff” in the new policy, noting more harmful content will appear on the platform as a result of the content moderation changes. "

DialecticAspirations

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123029849#Comment_123029849

This is a disaster! Another social network is going full free speech 😒.

Hold the line, Boards mods! Never give up that censorship of things you don't agree with hateful speech!

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123030369#Comment_123030369

Nothing to do with "free speech"

Zuckerberg is attempting to align himself with Trump for business reasons. He's just appointed Dana White, the UFC guy and Trump supporter, to the board.

It's difficult for social media companies to police all the **** online, so an easier way is to wash their hands of that, claim "itS foR fReE SpeEcH" and pay less. Also align themselves with an incoming administration that relies on disinformation to function.

There's also the threats

"Donald Trump has in the past threatened Meta and other major tech firms who factchecked his statements. Asked at his press conference if he believed that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision today to end factchecking on Facebook was related to his warnings, the president-elect replied: “probably”."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/07/us-politics-live-trump-justice-department-carter

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123030369#Comment_123030369

The fact Twitter has become 4chan says plenty about the need for moderation. The exodus of users does too.

PixelCrafter

Quite honestly I’m done with social media. The Twitter experience was appalling —morphed into a hellish mess.

Meta now looks like it’s going to do similar.

I don’t see the point in wasting hours engaging with these platforms and giving them free content.

They’re just anger machines.

I signed up got Bluesky and Mastodon but just have long since lost any enthusiasm for social media and rarely post.

My Facebook hasn’t been used in years, which reminds me I must properly delete it.

RoyalCelt

Meta going the way of X instead of the blue sky echo chamber model is massive for the social media industry and free speech in general. In America the government switches from red to blue and back again all the time. Ultimately less censorship by the establishment will benefit us all.

magicbastarder

that's from zuckerberg. lovely.

Glaceon

My Facebook feed is fairly well curated by now, for the most part I see stuff that I want to see. But I'll have no hesitation in dumping it if I start seeing unmoderated right-wing political crap. It's the only social media platform that I have left, never bothered with Instagram or Twitter or the like.

PixelCrafter

Only reason I had FB was some old contacts who I never speak to. I just think it’s all a bit pointless. Don’t need to be on it, so why bother?

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123032996#Comment_123032996

I find it handy for keeping track of hobbies, am a member of some pages and groups that interest me. But that's about all I use it for now, don't really post there very much.

PixelCrafter

I’m finding most of my groups are now WhatsApp based, yet more Meta.

corkie

An MEP as member of IMCO has posted that she will no longer be on 'Xitter'!

See thread as a page here and use google translate to get above! I post on Bluesky a link to it and asked her to encourage more MEP's on IMCO to do likewise.

https://bsky.app/profile/corkiejp.bsky.social/post/3lfgdfbvynk24

The META exodus wave due to changes in moderation by zuck is benefitting Bluesky. User count will probably reach 27,000,000 tomorrow or next day.

On Musk hosting Alice Weidel, there was nothing said on the conversation that affects things at an EU level? Even with Michael McGrath raising concerns about it on the media beforehand!

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-german-far-right-politics-alice-weidel-afd-olaf-scholz-donald-trump/

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123033072#Comment_123033072

I find FB full of spam and where its not, its full of anti what ever the group is about. If it was a group about forks it would be full of people who slag off forks. Most of it was was unusable before they changes the rules. The UI is awful.

Stark

Depends on who's moderating the group really. I'm in a few where membership has to be approved and admins keep on top of things and they're totally fine.

magicbastarder

My wife was telling me that some backyard chickens group she was in split in two, and then one of the two groups itself split in two, such was the infighting.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123043901#Comment_123043901

Interesting.

I can see US society splitting into two camps during the coming Trump term, X obviously for the Trumpers and Blusky for anti Trump.

When someone gives the public a free service like x and blusky then they, the public, are the product. I do think that the US profit driven divisive social media landscape is laying the foundation for an opening for an EU social media that only allows verifiable resident accounts and a small subscription fee to pay for a moderation team guided by jurisdiction laws rather than advertising income.